The Michelin Guide 2020 - JOEL SAGET - AFP

  • The Michelin Guide will unveil its 2020 selection this Monday from 4:30 p.m. at the Gabriel Pavilion in Paris
  • The Paul Bocuse restaurant will be the only three-star downgraded.
  • There will only be 628 starred tables, compared to 632 last year.

All of gastronomy in France is holding its breath while awaiting the verdict of the 2020 Michelin Guide? All of France, except triple-star restaurants, which already know that they keep their stars. Gwendal Poullennec, the international director of the Michelin guides, confirmed this Friday to AFP that the Paul Bocuse restaurant in Collonges-au-Mont-d'or (69) will be the only three-star establishment downgraded in 2020. emblematic chefs but presumed to be in danger like Michel Gerrard (86 years old) in Eugénie-les-Bains (40) or Georges Blanc (77 years old) in Vonnas (01), can continue to work serenely.

Dozens of lost stars

Still, there will be other downgrades: restaurants that will drop from two to one star, and others that will lose their single star. Out of 3,439 restaurants referenced, the 2020 Michelin Guide announces 628 starred tables, compared to 632 in 2019. Based on the figure of 75 restaurants promoted last year, they should be close to 80 to mourn the loss of one star this Monday…

On the good news side, we just know that there will be 18 new stars in Paris. Michelin announced it on its site, without specifying which tables are affected. For a first star, 20 Minutes thinks of Dersou or Passarini for the mind-blowing talent of their chefs, or of Pavyllon, the new chic but accessible table by Yannick Alléno. La Scène, Stéphanie Le Quellec's new restaurant could win two at once. And Jean-François Piège finally enter the triple-star circle for Le Grand Restaurant ...

#rumeur # michelin2020 via @ alsace20 #Kaysersberg France
Overall Rating: 5/5 pic.twitter.com/j2znAplv4O

- Neur0z0ne (@ Neur0z0ne) January 18, 2020

For the three-stars, other names circulate, such as that of Olivier Nasti at the head of the Chambard in Kaysersberg (68), Jean Sulpice for Père Bise in Talloires (74) or Christophe Coutanceau for his seafood restaurant in La Rochelle (17), but these are only rumors. As for the chefs, the potential leaks seem to have been locked by a Michelin Guide who likes nothing better than sparing surprise effects until the end. Last year, Mauro Colagreco told 20 Minutes that he did not think for a second of the three stars, before the name of his restaurant, Mirazur in Menton (06), was announced at the end of the evening.

How #MauroColagreco learned that he had won his third star in # Guide Michelin2019: bravo @maurocolagreco via @ 20Minutes via @guideichelinFR pic.twitter.com/dfdug01hWN

- Stephane Leblanc (@ sl20min) January 22, 2019

One can just think that if the announcement of the downgrading of Paul Bocuse occurred on January 17, ten days before the presentation of the guide, it is so that the information has time to be digested by those who will be brought to comment the 2020 selection. And don't overshadow the new graduates at a ceremony to follow, this Monday, January 27, from 4:30 p.m., at the Gabriel Pavilion in Paris or live on the Michelin Guide Facebook account.

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